Night457 wrote: Sat Jul 02, 2022 5:04 amI have even seen the claim that Norwegian is Danish spoken with a Swedish accent!
An interesting way to put it that even most Swedes that I've communicated with said is actually mostly true. With my linguistics classes, they used the Scandinavian languages to demonstrate, likely to Americans unfamiliar with the idea, the notion that not all languages are completely dissimilar, or mutually unintelligible, as they like to say. There's another "claim" that a language is a dialect with an army and a navy. I found it super fascinating that speakers of different languages can be mutually intelligible! I have also heard that the Norwegians in particular are very keen on promoting and maintaining regional variants of their language, and they support distinct dialects. Thus, supposedly, some Norwegian may have more trouble understanding some of their fellow countrymen
in Norwegian language than the Swedes across the border. I get confused when I try to understand the concept of Norwegian Bokmål and Nynorsk. I can read all about it, but I still have so many question!
I also find language isolates to be particularly fascinating!
I should have stuck with linguistics, since it fascinates me decades later.
It appears your experience with it was quite different than mine. In the courses I took, well they sure put us to work! But we didn't have those same stacks of handouts (or the hot prof) that you had. I'm not saying the way you had it wasn't right! It may be that all that study was the sign of a more advanced course. I am still just a newbish enthusiast even compared to the average European.
By the way, I have managed to download all the DVDrip of Julie
posted here by pt. Did you manage to grab them, Night? I am sourcing them now as release!
Julie (TV series 2005)
